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Boot sector

A boot sector is the sector of a persistent data storage device (e.g., hard disk, floppy disk, optical disc, etc.) which contains machine code to be loaded into random-access memory (RAM) and then executed by a computer system's built-in firmware (e.g., the BIOS).

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Applications, Partition tables & Boot-sector viruses

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Partition tables

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Boot-sector viruses

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The IBM PC and compatible computers

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Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)

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The IBM PC and compatible computers

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)

Partition tables

Operation

Boot-sector viruses

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Boot sector

Nodes47
Edges46
Triples63
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.042553
Components1

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Boot sector

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related to External links · 30
Boot sector → Archived, Arman Catacutan, August, Boot, Boot Viruses, Bootsector, Classic Viruses, CS1, Denny Lin, Glossary, GNU Assembler, Greg O'Keefe, How, Inexpensive, June, Kaspersky Lab, KnowledgeBase, Malware Descriptions, Mary Landesman, Microsoft
related to Operation · 16
Boot sector → BIOS, Furthermore, If, It, MBR, MBRs, On IBM PC, OS, The, The BIOS, The VBR, This, USB, VBR, VBRs, With
related to Boot-sector viruses · 8
Boot sector → BIOS, Depending, FDISK, MBR, Most BIOSes, Since, The BIOS, To
related to Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) · 4
Boot sector → Additionally, EFI, Secure Boot, UEFI
related to Damage to the boot sector · 3
Boot sector → BIOS, However, In
is a · 2
Boot sector → MEMZ, sector of a persistent data storage device

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boot sector code bios mbr disk first device system operating firmware may hard ibm pc viruses vbr partition signature partitioning

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Boot sectoris asector of a persistent data storage device0.90text
Boot sectoris aMEMZ0.90text
Boot sectorrelated to Boot-sector virusesSince0.60section
Boot sectorrelated to Boot-sector virusesTo0.60section
Boot sectorrelated to Boot-sector virusesBIOS0.60section
Boot sectorrelated to Boot-sector virusesDepending0.60section
Boot sectorrelated to Boot-sector virusesMost BIOSes0.60section
Boot sectorrelated to Boot-sector virusesThe BIOS0.60section
Boot sectorrelated to Boot-sector virusesMBR0.60section
Boot sectorrelated to Boot-sector virusesFDISK0.60section
Boot sectorrelated to Damage to the boot sectorIn0.60section
Boot sectorrelated to Damage to the boot sectorBIOS0.60section

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